The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND THE RESOLUTION LIFTING THE INJUNCTION OF SECRECY IMPOSED ON THE PROCEEDINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN TRANSACTED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, BY PROVIDING THAT THE INJUNCTION BE REMOVED "FROM AND AFTER THIS DAY FORTNIG…
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
- This vote predates the chambers' digital roll-call records (Senate begins 1989, House 1990). It is reproduced from the official Journals of Congress as compiled by Voteview (UCLA).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
How each state's members voted
In 4 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 10 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 2 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 5 no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 9 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 9 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 11 yes, 6 no
- New Jersey: 6 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 7 no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 6 yes, 16 no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 3 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 5 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 0 yes, 7 no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Madison Broom (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Meriwether (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Bryan (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peter Early (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Spalding (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Kentucky 1 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- George Michael Bedinger (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Boyle (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Fowler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Lyon (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Walton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Sandford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Massachusetts 9 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Barnabas Bidwell (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Isaiah Lewis Green (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Crowninshield (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist) — NAY
- John Chandler (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Barker (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Quincy (Federalist) — NAY
- Orchard Cook (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — NAY
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — NAY
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NAY
- William Ely (Federalist) — NAY
- William Stedman (Federalist) — NAY
Maryland 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — NAY
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NAY
- Leonard Covington (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Patrick Magruder (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Roger Nelson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William McCreery (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 5 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Duncan McFarlan (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Evan Shelby Alexander (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Winston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Marmaduke Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Blount (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Kenan (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Wynns (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Blackledge (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 5 no
New Jersey 6 yes, 0 no
New York 9 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Eliphalet Wickes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Clinton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Blake Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Russell (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Masters (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NAY
- Martin Gerretsen Schuneman (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peter Sailly (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Halsey (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Uri Tracy (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 11 yes, 6 no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Conrad (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Richards (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Kelly (Federalist) — NAY
- John Hamilton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Pugh (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Carolina 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rogerson Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Elias Earle (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Levi Casey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- O'Brien Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Marion (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Tennessee 3 yes, 0 no
Virginia 6 yes, 16 no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Alexander Wilson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Burwell Bassett (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Christopher Henderson Clark (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Mercer Garnett (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Morrow (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — NAY
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Mann Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Walter Jones (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 141 members
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